[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 84 (Friday, May 1, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24155-24156]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-11667]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 23-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 87--Lake Charles, LA; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board), by the Lake Charles Harbor & Terminal District 
(a.k.a. the Port of Lake Charles), grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 87, 
requesting authority to expand its zone in Lake Charles, Louisiana, 
within the Lake Charles Customs port of entry. The application was 
submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as 
amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR 
Part 400). It was formally filed on April 22, 1998.
    FTZ 87 was approved on July 22, 1983 (Board Order 217, 48 FR 35478, 
8/4/83). The zone project currently consists of four sites along the 
Calcasieu River and Ship Channel and the Industrial Canal: Site 1 (463 
acres)--general cargo area of the Port of Lake Charles, Lake Charles; 
Site 2 (360 acres)--industrial area on both sides of the Industrial 
Canal, some 12 miles south of the general cargo area, Lake Charles; 
Site 3 (11 acres)--warehouse facility at Fournet and Ford Streets, Lake 
Charles; and, Site 4 (3 acres)--warehouse facility at 3001 Industrial 
Avenue, Lake Charles.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include two new sites (924 acres) in Calcasieu Parish 
(Proposed Sites 5 and 6): Proposed Site 5 (391 acres)--Lake Charles 
Harbor & Terminal District's Industrial Park East, Highway 397, Lake 
Charles; and, Proposed Site 6 (533 acres, 3 parcels at the Chennault 
Airpark)--Parcel 1 (523 acres)--3650 J. Bennett Johnston Avenue, Lake 
Charles; Parcel 2 (9 acres)--East Broad Street, Lake Charles; and, 
Parcel 3 (1 acre )--Avenue C, Lake Charles. Proposed Site 5 was 
recently acquired by the Port. Proposed Site 6 is adjacent to Proposed 
Site 5 and is owned by area governmental entities and is leased to the 
Chennault International Airport Authority. Both sites are designated 
state enterprise zones. No specific manufacturing requests are being 
made at this time. Such requests would be

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made to the Board on a case-by-case basis.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ 
Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and 
report to the Board.
    Public comment on the application is invited from interested 
parties. Submissions (original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the 
Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period 
for their receipt is June 30, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to July 15, 1998).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Office of the Port Director, U.S. Customs Service, 150 Marine Street, 
Lake Charles, LA 70601
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: April 23, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-11667 Filed 4-30-98; 8:45 am]
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